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This journal entry is due on Thursday, April 4 at midnight PDT(Wednesday night/Thursday morning). NOTE new due date and that the server records the time as Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Therefore, midnight will register as 03:00.

Preparation for Journal Club 2

Make a list of at least 10 biological terms for which you did not know the definitions when you first read the article. Define each of the terms. You can use the glossary in any molecular biology, cell biology, or genetics text book as a source for definitions, or you can use one of many available online biological dictionaries (links below). List the citation(s) for the dictionary(s) you use, providing a URL to the page is fine.

Write an outline of the article. The length should be the equivalent of 2 pages of standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper (you can check this by clicking on "Print preview" in your browser). Your outline can be in any form you choose, but you should utilize the wiki syntax of headers and either numbered or bulleted lists to create it. The text of the outline does not have to be complete sentences, but it should answer the questions listed below and have enough information so that others can follow it. However, your outline should be in YOUR OWN WORDS, not copied straight from the article.

What is the main result presented in this paper?

What is the importance or significance of this work?

How did they treat the cells (what experiment were they doing?)

What strain(s) of yeast did they use? Was the strain haploid or diploid?

What media did they grow them in? What temperature? What type of incubator? For how long?

What controls did they use?

How many replicates did they perform per timepoint?

What mathematical/statistical method did they use to analyze the data?

What transcription factors did they talk about?

Briefly state the result shown in each of the figures and tables.

Each group of students will be assigned one section of the paper. The group will be responsible for preparing that portion of the PowerPoint presentation and explaining the assigned section and figures in detail to the class. Groups will be assigned on 3/10/11 in class.

Introduction, Figures 1, 2: Sarah, Carmen

Methods, Figures 3, 4: Alondra, Nick

Discussion, Figures 5, 6: James

Tips for your PowerPoint Presentation

Each slide needs to have a title that is a sentence that says the main take-home message for the slide. Do not use the words "Introduction", "Methods", "Results", or "Discussion" as titles for your slides.

Your outline should be a "mini-talk" that actually makes the points of your talk (not just what the talk is "about").

When putting the figures into your PowerPoint presentation, do the following:

First download the image as a file to your computer's hard drive. (Right-clicking the image in most web browsers will open a menu with "Save image as" as one of the options.

Then in PowerPoint, select "Insert image from file" and browse to your file. If you just copy/paste the image, this could lead to problems when showing a PowerPoint presentation made on a Mac on a Windows PC.

When enlarging images, be careful to not change the aspect ratio of the image.

You may choose to crop large figures into smaller pieces to facilitate your presentation.